Homeland Secure IT will be closed this coming Monday, September 5th for Labor Day… Should you need computer service, computer repair, or network support during this time, please email us at info@homelandsecureit.com or call 864.990.4748 – Leaving a message will result in that voice mail being sent to all of us here. We hope that you and your family will …
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DING DING DING… We have our winner for the Microsoft XBOX 360 giveaway…
The moment has arrived! It’s time to give away the Microsoft XBOX 360 gaming console…. Today I combined all our lists into one long Microsoft Excel spreadsheet… The list included names compiled from: General mailing list subscribers “Secure IT Alerts” mailing list subsribers Blog subscribers People who hit “like” on the www.HomelandSecureIT.com page People who “liked” our http://facebook.com/HomelandSecureIT page People …
Our XBOX 360 Giveaway is TOMORROW Sept 1st, 2011!!! #Greenville
Homeland Secure IT is giving away an XBOX 360 Arcade system for no particular reason… Good luck!
The HP ProBook 4530s 15.6″ LED Notebook is an excellent product at a reasonable price!
Last week we had to cut the cord and let our baby girl go off to college… That was more difficult than I care to relate to you in a blog post! One of the items on our task list was to secure a quality notebook that she could probably use for the four years she is in school. Being …
Apple’s Mac OS X Lion poses enterprise security risks (this is not a repeat)…
Using Mac’s in your enterprise? You will want to read this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/26/mac_osx_lion_security_hole/… This is kind of a big deal, as it underscores that Mac OS X Lion machines simply fail at LDAP, a basic part of enterprise network integration. In short, if you bring these Macs into your environment, once authenticated, they simply don’t care which password is entered, they …
Don’t trust those external portable USB hard drives with your important data!
I’ve posted this before… External, portable, USB hard drives are convenient to store some data on, but dang it, don’t put everything on one and trust that it is forever and always going to be there for you. These devices use 2.5″ hard drives like you would find in a notebook computer, and while there is nothing wrong with those …
Microsoft Windows Vista EOL (End Of Life) Announcement – No, it’s not dead quite yet!
Coming this October 22nd, is the official death of Microsoft Windows Vista… At least from the perspective of anyone wanting to buy it from a Microsoft dealer. Us dealers have been told that we can sell Vista until our stock is depleted. Which brings up one questions? WHO has stocks of Windows Vista? Seriously though, this is just the standard …
Trend Micro Titanium 2012 anti-virus / anti-malware now available
Trend Micro has unveiled their Titanium update for 2012! Keep your identity, data and social network protected from a new generation of threats. Staying safe online these days is about more than just avoiding malware. You have to protect your device, your privacy, your personal data, your social network, and your family against an army of new threats. Given that abandoning …
Just “deleting” a file could land you in prison #datasecurity
Alrighty, that sounded bad… Deleting a file probably won’t land you in jail unless you are doing something illegal in the first place. The idiot who attempted to extort money with a “collar bomb” was most likely caught due to leaving a message on a USB flash drive that he had deleted files from. The ONLY safe way to remove …
Football starts tonight…
Starting tonight, we will be sitting in a stadium watching our son play football for Easley High School. That is all…